Black Corporation has announced Deckard's Dream MK2 in a sleek new desktop format with all the sound of the original CS-80 replicant plus some genetic enhancements.
We all like multiple voices; the pads, the stabs and the textures as tones and timbres cascade and interweave. Which polyphonic synthesizers that went on sale in 2019 are your favourites?
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Radioactive is a 6HP digital chiptune-inspired synth voice for Eurorack with 5 different waveshaping modes, 3 oscillators with selectable waveforms, multi-mode envelope, quantizing and slew.
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Sampleson has released a one-button polyphonic synthesizer called Push. It will create a new patch every time you hit the button - it doesn't get much simpler than that and it's completely free.
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The Model D Warp Drive tease was ambiguous enough to make you think it could mean all sorts of things. But the latest tease video makes it clear than the Model D Warp Drive is all about polyphony.
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The Argon8 derives much of its heritage and DNA from the Modal 002 hybrid synthesizer and brings that benchmark wavetable sound into a more compact and price-conscious space. Updated video and pricing
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Deliciously harsh tones and resonant timbres emerge from this polyphonic box of synthesis from Gotharman's Music Instruments. Zybraz is coming like a character from a 70's Sci-Fi movie.
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Can Zeus from Argentina based GS Music be the god of all analog polysynths? Will we ever see it closer to home? And what could you do with a 12-voice multitimbral analog polyphonic synthesizer?
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We've enjoyed the relationship to the Grandmother, revelled in the awesome analogue sound and bathed in the 4 whole notes of polyphony. The Matriarch is a lovely synthesizer and they've just started shipping.
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The Hydrasynth has 3 oscillators per voice, 8 voices with mutant modulators, detunable wavestacking, wave morphing and a surprisingly useful number of knobs and hands-on controls for a digital synth.
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Black Corporation is now ready to take your deposit on their forthcoming XERXES 8-voice polyphonic desktop synthesizer for delivery shortly before Christmas.
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Krakli Plugins does it again with another polyphonic virtual synthesizer that's yours for free. This time it's based on the vintage Roland SH7 with its gloriously weird split oscillators and Autobend.
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PEEPS is a handbuilt polysynth with a fabulous vibe reflecting the EMS VCS3 & Korg MS-20 while having its own character. It's not a commercial product but S8JFOU will build you one if you ask nicely.
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18 months since we first saw it demoed the Radikal Technologies DELTA CEP A Swarm oscillator based semi-modular polysynth with paraphonic articulation finally hits the streets.
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Klang lets you dial in 4-voice chords with the 4 encoders surrounding that gorgeous screen and save them as progressions to pump throughout your Eurorack via individual voice outputs.
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Check out the thick animated sound of this unfinished prototype Super 6 polyphonic synthesizer. It offers a full stereo signal path per voice with all sorts of phasing and detuning.
It's less than a week since Yamaha asked around for interest in reissuing the CS-80 synthesizer and now Behringer has a complete design for their own DS-80 on the table and are asking for input.
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Fantastic new synthesizer coming from Novation which mashes together the Peak and the SL MkIII controller keyboard into one marvellously polyphonic synthesizer. Novation has reached the Summit!
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The Demon Core Oscillator is Supercritical's answer to polyphony in Eurorack. The oscillator module gives you stackable unison the Expander brings MIDI polyphony and 4 part CV with integrated envelope
Doepfer has been talking about their polyphonic modules for about a year but now they are available so you can start running and processing chords through your Eurorack.
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Straight out of the futuristic vision of the 1980s comes a synth based on CEM 3340 VCOs and 4-voice poly. But with no prototype and no demos can Paramount Synth capture the imagination of Indiegogo investors?
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The Motor Piano is a synthesizer that uses regular DC motors spinning optical disks as voltage controlled oscillators. 3 spinning motors are used per voice for up to 12 voices in this fascinating synthesizer.
Uli Behringer has been feeding the internet with day-by-day images of their Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer clone under construction. Today he published some photos of the finished hardware - and it looks great!
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Yamaha might have pulled off a cool looking stage piano with the vintage style interface of the CP73 and CP88.
